CALL has moved from being a niche field practised by a few early adopters, to being mainstream and arguably having significant impact, with two journals, ‘Computers in Education’ and ‘Language learning and Technology’ being ranked in the top 20 most influential journals in education.
Language teaching and language learning is being changed by the way that technology is used by creative language teachers in many classrooms throughout the world. Digital technologies: allow teachers to collaborate in order to provide better access to language for their learners, and to re-think the whole process of the way that languages can be developed in the classroom. Blended learning methodology is still being developed, but when handled best it is the most likely candidate for a starting point for getting teachers to work with technology in their practice. It is still the case that most teachers work in physical classrooms and looking at ways that these spaces can be augmented with digital technologies is a very good starting point.
Technology and language teaching should have a role of providing tools that can develop language teaching. Technology is no longer at the periphery of the ELT field, but at its centre, providing teachers with a means to enhance the teaching of languages in classrooms all over the world.